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  • Palazzo Ceausescu

  • National Gallery London coup

    The National Gallery’s everlasting ‘Treasure’, Neil MacGregor, will now save the British Library, where he moves shortly following his appointment after a long and successful term, outstanding for its combination of scholarship and intelligent financial acumen, untrammelled by the populist…

  • Hirst afforestation

    In a studio in the Cotswolds, close to Stroud, a megawork is gestating. A massive cube of empty carbon dioxide canisters is being put together. Damien Hirst has chosen to represent his personal emission of the gas. The completed work…

  • Coughs and sneezes after Amsterdam

    Van Gogh/Gauguin at Van Gogh Museum through June 2

  • A pelican in the wilderness – book review

    A short review does not do justice to this splendid publication by novelist Isabel Colegate, published to coincide with the exhibition ‘A pelican in the wilderness: hermits and solitude in art’ at the Holborne Museum of Art in Bath (16…

  • Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries

    Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries

  • Peter Doig 100 years ago

    Victoria Miro Gallery, London 13 April – 22 May 2002

  • Ken Kiff – book review

    Ken Kiff (1935–2001): Retrospective. Marlborough Fine Art Gallery, London.

  • Gerhard Richter: Forty years of painting

    The enigma of the German painter Gerhard Richter (b.1932) is finally explored through Robert Storr’s grand exhibition this spring in New York

  • Body Worlds: Fascination Beneath the Surface

    Body Worlds exhibits human corpses: skinned, gutted, flayed, peeled, shelled, filleted, opened up – dissected in every imaginable way. The cadavers are perfectly preserved by infusion with plastics and then posed in order to enlighten as science and elevate as…